Overcoming Prejudice Quotes

Not being white has never prevented me from enjoying Luke Skywalker or Han Solo. These are heroes of mine.

I'm not really concerned with trying to turn haters into believers.

With every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no real problem.

The story of Jackie Robinson is also the story of Branch Rickey. He had many reasons for doing what he did, but he stood up against his own people.

Long shots do come in and hard work, dedication and perseverance will overcome almost any prejudice and open almost any door.

Don't let anyone keep you down for silly reasons such as who you are.

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.

I did notice growing up that there are so many things, obstacles and things, that people think you can't do because you're Muslim or because you're wearing a hijab. You hear a lot of no's. That was something that I wanted to see change.

After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent folks, the need to ignore evidence of injustice is powerful: To do otherwise would force whites to either push for change (which they would perceive as against their interests) or live consciously as hypocrites who speak of freedom and opportunity but perpetuate a system of inequality.

The first step in freeing men from external chains was to emancipate them from the internal chains of false beliefs and ideals.

There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminated against because of your complexion, the way in which you could overcome that was through the way in which you presented yourself with your clothing.

There are some sour people out there, but we should be getting together and fighting for something bigger rather than Asians against Asians.

There's only one way to break the color line. Be good. I mean, play good. Play so good that they can't remember what color you were before the season started.

I know that when we interact with those we fear and hate, we will find commonality.

No man is prejudiced in favor of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its being right; and when he sees it is not so, the prejudice will be gone.

People are always asking me if the industry is changing, and my answer is always that it is changing only as much as we are. Many South Asian actors complain about being pigeonholed into playing terrorists and cab drivers, but it's time that we stop talking about it. The industry will always say 'No' till we have enough to convince them.

It is very common for people to come up to the cast members and say, 'Our family is OK now because of 'Transparent.''

We are glad and proud to think that even in so conservative a body as the Legislative Council there is a majority of men who are guided by the principles of reason and justice, who desire to see their womenkind treated as reasonable beings, and who have triumphed over prejudice, narrow-mindedness and selfishness

I would argue further that Barack Obama's election to the presidency of the United States was essentially an American sophistication, a national exercise in seeing what was not there and a refusal to see what was there - all to escape the stigma not of stupidity but of racism.

I cannot afford to believe that freedom from intolerance is the right of only one particular group. And I cannot afford to choose between the fronts upon which I must battle these forces of discrimination, wherever they appear to destroy me. And when they appear to destroy me, it will not be long before they appear to destroy you.

I refuse to allow prejudice to defeat me.

The Negro Marines are no longer on trial. They are Marines, period

When I first got to WWE, people thought I was going to be fired within three months. No one liked me; no one wanted me there, whether it was the fans or the people backstage. I had to fight and fight and fight to earn my spot.

I don’t like to live in fear about things like rumors and backlash to begin with - that’s the way I was raised - but I just can’t see what’s so wrong about being gay.

The pair smiled desperately at one another. And for the first time ever, despite the fact that everyone he knew - even the gods themselves - would condemn him for it, Jebel didn't think of Tel Hesani as a slave, but as an equal.